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At 11:01 AM 3/18/2006, Ann Blankenship wrote:
> Although the whole oat may have more complete 
> nutrition, it won?t help if it isn?t 
> digested.  I believe I read that it?s more 
> difficult for the horse to digest whole or 
> crimped oats? as witnessed by all the nice bits 
> you?ll see in the manure.  So I guess I?d come 
> down on the ?rolled? side of this 
> question.  They can?t help if they don?t stay IN the horse, right?

The problem with rolling or crimping is that the 
moment the seed is subjected to that process, it 
loses nutrition (enzymatic action and vitamins 
and who knows what all else).  The more time 
between the processing and the horse's eating the 
seed, the less nutrition.  So unless a person is 
crimping or rolling the oats just before feeding 
them, in a sense the horse is getting "empty 
nutrition" food, kind of like horsie junk food.


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